Pampanga Cuisine - The Philippines

If it's a Filipino dish that's tasty, aromatic, and appetizing, it must be a Pampanga cuisine. Here are samples.

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Begukan Babi

Fried-brown pork pieces sautéed in garlic, onions, and tomatoes. The thing that makes this Pampanga cuisine super flavorsome is the composition of preserved shrimp or "bagoong" and native vinegar. The sautéed pork is bathed in the proportioned bagoong-vinegar concoction until the composition turns into a fine spicy sauce enriching the flavor of pork. This is perfect as a steamy rice topping.

Chicken and Pork Apritada

A Pampanga cuisine of pork and chicken like Pampanga Apritada often comes out very rich in color and sauce-rich. Apritada is a rich and juicy mix of pork, chicken, potatoes, red bell pepper, and tomato sauce, and Pampanga folks have even made it look and taste richer with liberal amounts of tomato sauce applied in a special manner. Apritada is a favorite Filipino dish differently done by different regions in the Philippines.

Kalderetang Kambing

Folks from Northern Luzon are specialist goat meat cookers. Pampanga, Tagalog, and Ilocos folks, among others, have different secrets in cooking their Kaldereta recipes, and among the delectable versions is the Kaldereta Pampanga cuisine. Among the secrets are the Spanish Paprika, rum, beef liver, and grated cheese contents. The goat meat always comes out tender and extra flavorsome, with a rich, thick sauce of melted cheese, spices, goat beef and liver essence, and tomato sauce. Every bite has a hot and spicy taste to it.

Bopis

Bopis is a favorite Filipino dish among locals. It has a subtle meat flavor mixed with a light touch of pleasantly sourly taste. Hence, it goes well with fish sauce or patis. Cooked as a Pampanga cuisine, Bopis becomes even more appetizing. It's mostly of pork innards, like lungs and liver, well tenderized and spiced up with vinegar, salt, and some flavorsome local herbs.

Crispy Pata

It's everyone's favorite! This Filipino dish never fails to tickle the appetites even of foreigners. Crispy Pata Pampanga style is even more crackling to the bite. The crispy and golden pork skin-covering is such a yummy introduction to the juicy and tender meat inside. When Crispy Pata is located on the supper table the aroma is plainly tempting even to strict dieters.

Rellenong Talong

Eggplant may look lowly to most people, but not to an specialist Pampanga chef. A favorite Pampanga cuisine called Rellenong Talong is plainly stuffed eggplant, but done with important Pampanga culinary secrets. Eggplant is soaked in a bowl of beaten egg whites and yolks. Then cooked ground pork or beef is mixed in with sautéed garlic, onions, and tomato. This is a Filipino dish many people love.

Pampanga Cuisine - The Philippines